Adolphe Menjou
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Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.
His career spanned silent films and talkies.
He appeared in films including Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he appeared as the lead actor; Ernst Kubrick's The Bride of Versailles with Russell Garnet; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March 1931.
Early life
Adolphe Jean Menjou was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Albert Menjou (1858-1917), a French father, and Nora (née Joyce, 1869–1953). Henry Arthur Menjou (1891-1956), his brother, was a year younger. He was born Catholic, attended the Culver Military Academy, and earned a degree in engineering from Cornell University. He made his film debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mysteries, attracted to the vainty of vaindeville. He served as a captain in the United States Army Ambulance Service, for which he trained in Pennsylvania before heading overseas during World War I.
Personal life
Menjou has been married three times. In 1920, Kathryn Conn Tinsley's first marriage ended in divorce. Kathryn Carver was conceived in 1928, but he and her husband Barbara Wesley divorced in 1934. Verne Teasdale's third and final marriage lasted from 1934 to his death on October 29, 1963; they had one adopted son, Peter Menjou.
Menjou's autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors, was released in 1948.
Menjou died in Beverly Hills, California, on October 29, 1963, of hepatitis. At Hollywood Forever Cemetery, he is interred alongside Vern Verner.
Career and stardom
After returning from war, Menjou gradually rose through the ranks with small but fruitful roles in films such as The Faith Healer (1921) and The Three Musketeers (1921). He was at top or near-top billing by 1922, with a sample of those films being released by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, beginning with Pink Gods (1922), but he has shot films for several studios and directors. His support for A Woman of Paris in 1923 solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town, and he has been named America's Best Dressed Man nine times. He was described as an example of a suave type of actor, one who could play lover or villain. Despite the poor screenplay, he attended the preview of Maurice Chevalier's first Hollywood film Innocents of Paris in 1929 and personally assured Chevalier that he would have a great future. He came to an end of the 1920s with films including His Private Life (1928) and Fashions in Love (1929).
His The 1929 stock market crash ended his career as a result of the crash, but he went back to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and carried on with films (now talkies) in a variety of ways, but his leading roles had decreased by this time. He appeared in Morocco in 1930 with Marlene Dietrich. After being nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page (1931), he was nominated for The Front Page (1931). A variety of supporting roles were played in this decade, including A Farewell to Arms (1932), Morning Glory (1933), and A Star Is Born (1937).
His roles in the 1940s diminished slightly, but he did overseas work for World War II as well as supporting roles in films such as Roxie Hart (1942) and State of the Union (1948). He bribed the void of working with several well-known directors, ranging from Frank Borzage to Frank Capra to Stanley Kubrick, over the course of his career.
Menjou appeared in just 11 films in the 1950s, but he did snag one last leading role with the film noir The Sniper (1952). Incidentally, Edward Dmytryk, the film's director, had been blacklisted from the film industry for failing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the 'Red scare' before deciding to testify and identify names as a brief member of the Communist Party.
In 1955, Menjou appeared in "Border of Silence," episode 19 of the first season of the television show Science Fiction Theatre. In a 1961 episode, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty") based on American humorist James Thurber's (particularly "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"), he guest-starred as Fitch, with Orson Bean and Sue Randall as John and Ellen Monroe. In addition to appearing in the NBC's Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford's Thanksgiving episode, which aired on November 22, 1956, he appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Menjou's film career came to an end with roles as French General George Broulard in Stanley Kubrick's film Paths of Glory (1957), and his last film role was as the town curmudgeon in Disney's Pollyanna (1960).